Chapter 56: Cao Pi abolished the emperor, usurped Yan, Liu Nanye, rebelled, and re-raised the army (14
Burning incense and worshipping the wrong Bodhisattva, the veteran who has left the battlefield feels that his life is simply a coffee table, with cups and utensils on it. He glanced at the banner of the word "Wei" behind the red-faced general and sighed deeply, when the book is used, he hates less, if he is literate, at least he can recognize the right person if he surrenders.
Wei Yan is also extremely depressed today, although some people say that he is somewhat similar to Guan Yu on weekdays, but this is the first time that the enemy army worships him as Guan Gong. What made him even more puzzled was that his men and horses were well hidden in the woods, how could this old army crash headlong and find the traces of the army.
Glancing at the fact that there were no more Cao soldiers behind the old army, Wei Yan breathed a sigh of relief and asked the old army: "Are you a meticulous detective in the Cao army?" ”
The old soldier can survive countless battles, and his heart is very flexible, and he hurriedly shook his head and said, "No! No! The three princes besieged the city, and the city of Xuchang was broken overnight. I was old and wanted to live two more days, so I became a fugitive and hid in the woods. ”
Although the shrewd old army couldn't recognize Wei Yan's banner, he could also conclude that Wei Yan was one of the three people, so he simply shot Nan Ye, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan's sycophants together, which was always wrong.
Wei Yan was relieved to hear that the old army was not scouting the horse but deserting, which showed that the ambush plan was not leaked. However, based on the old army's words, Wei Yan didn't believe it, and carefully inquired about the battle between the old army Wu and Wei, and then believed the old army's words.
The veteran knows when to lie and when to tell the truth. After pouring beans into a bamboo tube to explain the war, he waited for Wei Yan to fall. The old army knew in his heart that whether he lived or died today depended on the red-faced general in front of him.
Wei Yan knew that there was a rule in the Nanye army not to kill prisoners, but the behavior of the old army fleeing from the battle made Wei Yan feel very dissatisfied, and felt that this kind of old fritter would be a scourge even if it was co-opted, and it was better to kill it.
When the old army saw Wei Yan's big sword slowly raised, he knew that he was finished. The old army never thought about resisting this kind of thing, because in the face of tens of thousands of troops led by a general, how to resist is futile, and it will only make his death ugly. The old army closed his eyes and lowered his head, hoping that Wei Yan would give him a good time.
Wei Yan found that the old army bowed his head and led him to death, and his heart moved slightly, feeling that this old army was not useless, at least he had the courage to face death calmly. Just when he was hesitating to start, he heard someone shouting: "General Wenchang, slow down!" ”
Wei Yan looked for prestige and saw Zhao Yun coming from the forest, so he said to Zhao Yun: "What's the use of a fugitive pawn staying?" ”
Zhao Yun said: "This person has surrendered, he is a pawn, and he should not be killed according to the military order." Moreover, after this battle, there must have been countless Cao army soldiers, and this person could be used to promote the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners in Jiaozhou. ”
Wei Yan, a war maniac, didn't understand Nanye's policy of preferential treatment of prisoners, but he still understood military orders. So Wei Yan put down the big knife and said to the old army: "Count your fate!" There will be a place for you later, if you dare to escape again, you will not be spared! ”
"Thank you, General! Thank you, two generals! After kowtowing to Wei Yan, the old army kowtowed to Zhao Yun. When he saw Zhao Yun, who was unusually handsome with a white horse and silver spear, the old army finally understood who he was guilty of, and Zhao Yun's reputation was no less than Guan Yu's.
After Wei Yan sent the old army, he asked Zhao Yundao: "Cao Bing's desertion has entered the woods, should we also send troops?" ”
Zhao Yun nodded and said, "I'm here just to send troops with Wen Chang. ”
Wei Yan was overjoyed when he heard this, and joined forces with Zhao Yun to kill the Cao army outside the forest. Cao Bing's desertion was not the only one of the old soldiers, the old soldiers bumped into Wei Yan in the woods on the left, and others bumped into Zhang Fei in the woods on the right. As a result, Zhang Fei, who was ambushed in the forest on the right, also killed together.
Outside the woods, Niu Jin, Cao Zhang, Deng Yi, and Liu Xian are still inseparable from Huang Xu's four young generals. As Cao's soldiers walked through the dense forests on both sides, forming a trap situation, the advantage of the Wu army was also gone. Seeing that Cao Jun was about to gain the upper hand and surround and kill Huang Xusi, Cao Zhang and the others heard a great chaos in the rear team. The dense forests on both sides shouted and killed, with Zhao Yun and Wei Yan on the left and Zhang Fei on the right, leading the troops to kill together.
Niu Jin and Cao Zhang didn't expect that there would be ambush soldiers, and this time there were more ambush soldiers, and countless Nan Ye and Liu Bei soldiers poured out of the woods on both sides. Niu Jin and Cao Zhang immediately withdrew their troops when they saw that the situation was not good, and at this time they wanted to understand why General Huang Xusi dared to fight with their tens of thousands of troops with thousands of men.
Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei are both super-first-class generals, and Wei Yan is also a first-class peak general. Zhao Yun's marksmanship is fast and smart, he will reap a life with a single shot, and with a flick of his wrist, he will stab another person to death without returning the gun, and often Cao Bing did not see how Zhao Yun shot when he died. Wei Yan was much more violent, slashing with a round big knife, and a few lives were lost with a single knife. Zhang Fei is more fierce than Wei Yan, his Zhangba snake spear is the longest among the three weapons, it is clearly a spear but it is not like Zhao Yun with a thorn, but it is a horizontal slash from Wei Yan. A spear swept a large area with a slashing belt, and being cut by the spear blade is a person's head is not protected from intestines and rotten, and being drawn by the spear shaft is a bloody mouth and nose, broken bones and tendons.
As soon as these three killing gods entered the battle array, Cao Jun was in chaos, not to mention that there were countless soldiers and horses behind the three of them. Niu Jin and Cao Zhang's four generals did not dare to fight with these three people at all, and fled one after another. Fortunately, in the chaotic army, there were people blocking the road everywhere, and Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, and Wei Yan couldn't spare themselves to deal with Niu Jin, Cao Zhang and other generals.
Niu Jin, Cao Zhang, and Deng Yi were lucky, and they desperately rushed out of a bloody way to escape, and Liu Xianke was unlucky. Before they fought with the four young generals, Cao Zhang vs. Huang Xu, Niu Jin vs. Guan Ping, Deng Yi vs. Liu Feng, Liu Xian vs. Ling Tong, the gap between the first three pairs of martial arts is not too big, only Liu Xian is really a little difficult for Ling Tong, if the martial arts of the two are measured by the stars, the gap is more than ten. As a result, as soon as the ambush came out, Niu Jin, Cao Zhang, and Deng Yi all fled, and only Liu Xian was entangled by Ling Tong.
Seeing that Ling Tong was stubbornly entangled, Liu Xian was horrified in his heart, and he was desperately shot by Ling Tong with his life, and then he fled. Ling Tong's shot was stabbed when Liu Xian returned to his horse, although it did not stab Liu Xian's vital point, but it injured Liu Xian's right shoulder, making him unable to hold the gun. It should also be Liu Xian's bad luck, and he hit Zhang Fei on the way back, but he was directly pulled off the horse by Zhang Fei with a spear, and he couldn't even raise his gun to stop it, and then he was trampled to death by the rebels. The funny thing is that after the war, Zhang Fei didn't know that he had killed a Cao general, because Liu Xian's performance after being injured was comparable to that of a cavalry in Zhang Fei's opinion.
Niu Jin, Cao Zhang, and Deng Yi didn't know that Liu Xian was already dead in the battle, and even if they knew, they couldn't care about it. The three of them led the defeated army and ran hard. Just when they thought they had escaped their lives, they heard another drum beat on both sides of the road. There are Huang Zhong and Yang Xiong on the left, and Guan Yu on the right, and the three generals rushed out of the forest together.
The three Cao generals are not to mention facing these three super-first-class generals at the same time, even if they are only against one person, they may not be able to fight. At this time, there is nothing else to say except desperately. However, even if they worked hard, Niu Jin, Cao Zhang, and Deng Yi didn't dare to fight with Guan Yu, Huang Zhong, and Yang Xiong, so they could only find the three of them to fight hard. As a general, he has to fight for the life of a pawn, and the sorrow of a general is nothing more than this.
Under the cover of many Cao soldiers, Cao Zhang, Niu Jin, and Deng Yi finally rushed out again. Huang Zhong, Guan Yu, and Yang Xiong were in hot pursuit. Cao Bing broke away from the brigade one after another, and was either strangled by the pursuers behind him, or threw his weapons and surrendered. By the time Cao Zhangsan returned to Xuchang City, the remnants of the tens of thousands of troops were only a few hundred cavalry.
Li Ru ordered his soldiers to shoot a rain of arrows in the city, which stopped the pursuit momentum of Huang Zhong's three generals, and Kaicheng took Cao Zhang's three generals into the city. After this battle, there were still 100,000 Cao soldiers left in Xuchang City, and Cao Zhang no longer dared to leave the city easily.
There is a way that a few families are happy and a few are worried, Cao Jun lost tens of thousands of men and horses, and Xuchang City was gloomy. But Nanye's tent was full of joy, and everyone gathered in one place to discuss meritorious deeds. The first merit of this battle was not Zhang Fei, who killed Liu Xian, nor the four young generals who called the battle to lure the enemy out of the city for many days, but Zhuge Liang, who was responsible for making suggestions. As early as a few days ago, Zhuge Liang made a plan to mobilize troops to bypass Xuchang in the middle of the night and ambush outside the north gate. After the three soldiers and horses were ready, the fourth general Huang Xu went to the north gate to lure the enemy.
This time, the ambush at the north gate were all the generals of the Nan, Sun, and Liu families, and more than 100,000 soldiers and horses were also sent. Even if Li Ru's whole army was exhausted, the three families were not afraid, and Nan Ye, Sun Quan, and Liu Bei, who stayed in the camp, just took the opportunity to seize the city.
Zhuge Liang's plan greatly weakened the soldiers and horses in the city, and it can be regarded as avenging Sun Quan, so everyone was happy, and the relationship between the Sun and Liu families eased a lot.
Just when everyone was drinking and celebrating the achievement, the meteor scout horse entered the camp and reported: "Zhou Gongjin, the governor of King Wu, sent Lu Zijing to lead 60,000 soldiers to come to help, in order to make up for the loss of soldiers and horses before." ”
When Sun Quan heard the news, he ordered someone to guide the reinforcements to camp in the west of the city, and on the other hand, he ordered someone to invite Lu Su to celebrate the achievement. With Lu Su's support army, Sun Quan finally raised his eyebrows, and he no longer had to feel that he was inferior to others.
After the banquet dispersed, Nan Ye asked Guo Jiadao with some doubts: "Sun Zhongmou has already lost his troops before, and it is because of this that when he ambushed, he let the Wu army deal with Cao Zhang, who led fewer troops, and Liu Xuande and I will also take care of it when attacking the city in the future." Sun Zhong got so cheap, why did Zhou Gongjin send troops? ”
Guo Jia said with a smile: "National teachers are not a common saying: risks and opportunities coexist. Although the risk of Wu Jun being taken care of is much smaller, the benefits are also reduced. In this battle, Dongwu only won more than 1,000 soldiers from Cao's army, and who did not capture tens of thousands of horses between the national teacher and the Xuande Gong? Zhou Yu saw through this, and was worried that the profit would be uneven after the destruction of Xuchang City, so he dispatched troops. ”
When Nan Ye heard Guo Jia's explanation, he suddenly realized. Now the three are working together to attack the city, and there is only one in Xuchang, which one will belong to after the city is broken? And how is the spoils distributed? Doesn't it all depend on how much effort you put in during the siege! If it is evenly distributed, no one will do it, and in the face of the fact that Sun Quan has fewer soldiers than the two families, the Nan and Liu families can directly reject the proposal of equal distribution.